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Netsky.B flies across Net
E-mail inboxes are being swamped as Netsky.B continues to increase its infection rate.
E-mail inboxes are being swamped as Netsky.B continues to increase its infection rate.
The worm first appeared on February 17, and appears to have originated in the Netherlands. MessageLabs, an e-mail management company, claims to have stopped over 1.3 million since the virus started spreading, and believes the infection rate is increasing rapidly. Symantec have rated the worm as Category 4 - Severe. This means the worm is a dangerous threat and is difficult to contain.
The worm does require the user to open the attachment with the e-mail. "These days it's less to do with technology, with the code of the virus, and more to do with social engineering," David Banes of MessageLabs told ZDNet Australia.
In the last 24 hours MessageLabs stopped more than 10 times as many Netsky.B worms as MyDoom worms.